In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Founded in 1884, is the oldest professional association of historians in the U.S. The study was coordinated by Nicholas Kryczka, a ...

Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression. The Zinn Education ...

Leon Smith of Pennsylvania engages high school students in new angles on seemingly well-trodden topics and events.

Teachers and students can access free Zinn Education Project resources, from lesson plans to virtual workshops, to explore Black history with honesty, depth, and urgency. (Photo Credit: Unsplash / Sam ...

With the new school year underway, what’s being taught in K-12 history classes is still a hot-button political issue. In the wake of the 2020 murder of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, by a white ...

What Nora Green, a junior at Charleston County School of the Arts, has found most interesting about what she has learned in her U.S. history class is how anti-Black prejudice transforms over time.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The landscape of Black history education in Florida has been shifting, with teachers adapting their lesson plans to align with new state standards. In 2023, Florida updated its ...

Teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg shared with PIX11 News what that means in terms of classroom instruction now. “It’s something else in the history book,” said the U.S. History teacher who wrote curriculum ...

At first glance, racism in the United States is hard to understand, as one group against whom it is directed are people who created this country in 1776. It seems that Americans are discriminating ...

The future of history education lies in empowering students to engage in intensive research with carefully curated collections of primary sources, enhanced by AI-driven tools that provide context, ...

Buried among Florida's manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of Confederate soldiers that ...